* To provide students with a basic understanding of force and acceleration, work and energy, impulse and momentum in terms of Kinematics of a particle, and Kinetics of a rigid body.
* To provide students with a basic understanding of the oscillating motion of a body or system of connected bodies.

Textbook

Engineering Mechanics – Dynamics, R.C. Hibbeler, 13th edition

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

Derive equations for the kinematics and kinetics for different objects.

Derive and use equations for the kinetics of rigid bodies.

Set up and solve equations of motion for rigid bodies.

Apply work-energy principles in the solution of rigid-body dynamics problems

Apply impluse-momentum principles in the solution of rigid-body dynamics problems.